Personality Factors, Self-Efficacy, and Mental Health among University Students: A Correlational Study

The aim of the present study is to investigate the personality factors and self-efficacy in relation to mental health among university students. The sample comprised of 80 post graduate students (40 boys and 40 girls), who was randomly selected, from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. The NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI; Costa & McCrae, 1992), General Self-Efficacy Scale-Hindi (GSS-H; Sud, 2002), and Mental Health Check-List (MHC; Kumar, 1992) were used to measure the personality factors, self-efficacy, and mental health respectively. Results of correlation analysis revealed that only conscientiousness dimension of NEO-FFI was significant positive relation with better mental health among students. Furthermore, self-efficacy was significantly positive correlated with extroversion and conscientiousness while negative correlated with neuroticism. Moreover, it was also found that self-efficacy was positively correlated with mental health.